IGL Resources on Racism, Racial Justice and Equity

On this page:
Community Message by President Tony Monaco 
Request for Proposals for Summer Projects that Address Racial Disparities
Educational Resources
Organizations working on Anti-Racism

 

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~ Maya Angelou

 

It is your responsibility to change society if you think of yourself as an educated person.
~James Baldwin

 

Community Message on Racial Injustice by Tony Monaco, the President of Tufts University

Request for Proposals for Summer Projects that Address Racial Disparities

Students are encouraged to submit proposals to conduct original, policy-oriented research and/or projects that address racial disparities in the U.S. or globally.  Proposals may be submitted to igl@tufts.edu on a rolling basis.

Educational Resources

Toolkits

https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race

https://www.obama.org/wp-content/uploads/Toolkit.pdf

Books

Non-Fiction

White Fragility: Why It’s So hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo
https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431

So You Want To Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776

Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi-Coates
https://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates/dp/0451482212
 
Systemic Racism: A Theory of Oppression by Joe R. Feagin
https://www.amazon.com/Systemic-Racism-Oppression-Joe-Feagin/dp/0415952786
 
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
https://justmercy.eji.org/

Killing rage, ending racism by bell hooks
https://www.amazon.com/killing-rage-Ending-Racism-Book/dp/0805050272

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement by Wesley Lowry
https://www.amazon.com/They-Cant-Kill-All-Baltimore/dp/0316312479

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (National Book Award)
https://www.ibramxkendi.com/stamped-from-the-beginning
 
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465083617

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
https://www.amazon.com/Half-Has-Never-Been-Told/dp/0465049664

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
https://www.professorcarolanderson.org/white-rage

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
https://www.amazon.com/Undercommons-Fugitive-Planning-Black-Study/dp/1570272670
 
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/166114/a-country-of-strangers-by-david-k-shipler/

Chokehold: Policing Black Men by Paul Butler
https://www.amazon.com/Chokehold-Policing-Black-Paul-Butler/dp/1595589058
 
The Skull Measurer’s Mistake and Other Portraits of Men and Women Who Spoke Out Against Racism by Sven Lindquist
https://www.amazon.com/Skull-Measurers-Mistake-Portraits-Against/dp/1565843630

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
https://www.amazon.com/Stony-Road-Reconstruction-White-Supremacy/dp/0525559531

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
https://www.amazon.com/Tears-We-Cannot-Stop-America/dp/1250135990

What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America by Michael Eric Dyson
https://www.amazon.com/What-Truth-Sounds-Like-Conversation/dp/1250199417

Parting the Waters:  America in the King Years 1954-63, by Taylor Branch
https://www.amazon.com/Parting-Waters-America-Years-1954-63/dp/0671687425

The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements by George M. Frederickson
https://www.amazon.com/Comparative-Imagination-George-M-Fredrickson-dp-0520224841/dp/0520224841/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
 
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning Marable
https://www.amazon.com/How-Capitalism-Underdeveloped-Black-America-dp-1642591149/dp/1642591149/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=
 
The Bell Curve Wars: Race, Intelligence and the Future of America by Steven Fraser (ed.)
https://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Wars-Intelligence-Republic/dp/0465006930
 
The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America by Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith
https://www.amazon.com/Unsteady-March-Decline-Equality-America/dp/0226443418
 
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
https://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Ways-Looking-Black-Man/dp/0679776664
 
Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism by Derrick Bell
https://www.amazon.com/Faces-At-Bottom-Well-Permanence/dp/0465068146
 
Power and Prejudice: The Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination by Paul Gordon Lauren
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Prejudice-Politics-Diplomacy-Discrimination/dp/0813321433
 
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann
https://www.amazon.com/Promised-Land-Migration-Changed-America/dp/0679733477
 
We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power and the Radical Imagination by Russell Rickford
https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199861477.001.0001/acprof-9780199861477
 
Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership by Ed Gordon
https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Black-Power-Politics-Leadership/dp/031653286X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Malcolm-Told-Alex-Haley/dp/0345350685

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
https://www.amazon.com/Warmth-Other-Suns-Americas-Migration/dp/0679763880
 
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Next-Time-James-Baldwin/dp/067974472X

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans by John Hope Franklin
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Freedom-History-African-Americans/dp/0072963786

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
https://www.amazon.com/Racism-without-Racists-Color-Blind-Persistence/dp/1442202181

Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Grove-Thurgood-Marshall-Groveland/dp/0061792268

Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
https://www.amazon.com/Barracoon-Story-Last-Black-Cargo/dp/0062748203

 

Memoirs

Becoming by Michelle Obama
https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Michelle-Obama/dp/1524763136

My Vanishing Country: A Memoir by Bakari Sellers

https://www.amazon.com/My-Vanishing-Country-Bakari-Sellers/dp/0062917455

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
https://www.amazon.com/Heavy-American-Memoir-Kiese-Laymon/dp/1501125656

I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in A World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
https://www.amazon.com/Im-Still-Here-Dignity-Whiteness/dp/1524760854

What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damien Young
https://www.amazon.com/What-Doesnt-Kill-Makes-Blacker/dp/0062684302

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga
https://www.amazon.com/This-Bridge-Called-My-Back/dp/091317503X

 

Fiction

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
https://www.amazon.com/Citizen-American-Lyric-Claudia-Rankine/dp/1555976905
 
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
https://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God/dp/0060838671

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
https://www.amazon.com/Bluest-Eye-Vintage-International/dp/0307278441
                      
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Railroad-Pulitzer-Winner-National/dp/0385542364

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
https://www.amazon.com/Homegoing-Yaa-Gyasi/dp/1101971061

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
https://www.amazon.com/Hate-U-Give-Angie-Thomas/dp/0062498533

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
https://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Boys-Novel-Colson-Whitehead-ebook/dp/B07J489X7H

 

Articles

“1619 Project” by The New York Times Magazine
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

“Indigenous Knowledges and the Story of the Bean” by Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy and Emma Hughes, Harvard Educational Review, Vol. 79., No. 1, Spring 2009

“Black Study, Black Struggle” by Robin D.G. Kelley, Boston Review, February 2018
http://bostonreview.net/forum/robin-d-g-kelley-black-study-black-struggle

“How Alexandra Bell Is Disrupting Racism in Journalism” by Doreen St. Felix, The New Yorker, May 29, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-alexandra-bell-is-disrupting-racism-in-journalism

“Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” by Olga Khazan
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/being-black-in-america-can-be-hazardous-to-your-health/561740/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=atlantic-weekly-newsletter&utm_content=20180615&silverid-ref=MzEwMTkwMjYxNTUxS0

“White America’s Age-Old, Misguided Obsession with Civility by Thomas J. Sugrue, The New York Times, June 29, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/opinion/civility-protest-civil-rights.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

“What Antwon Rose’s Poetry Tells Us About Being Black in America” by A.T. McWilliams, The New Yorker, July 4, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-antwon-roses-poetry-tells-us-about-being-black-in-america

“The Disappearing Story of the Black Homesteaders Who Pioneered the West” by Richard Edwards, The Washington Post, July 5, 2018
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-disappearing-story-of-the-black-homesteaders-who-pioneered-the-west/2018/07/05/ca0b51b6-7f09-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html

“I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/nyregion/nyc-police-subway-racial-profiling.html

As the George Floyd protests continue, let's be clear where the violence is coming from by Rebecca Solnit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/01/george-floyd-riots-violence-damage-property-police-brutality

“Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing Is People Pushed to the Edge” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2020
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-05-30/dont-understand-the-protests-what-youre-seeing-is-people-pushed-to-the-edge

 

Films

American Son
Malcolm X
Hidden Figures
Selma
Just Mercy
Mississippi Burning
The Ghosts of Mississippi

 

Documentaries

“A Class Divided” --
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/class-divided/

“Crime and Punishment” https://www.crimeandpunishmentdoc.com/  (available on Hulu)

“Documenting Hate: Charlottesville
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-charlottesville/

“Documenting Hate: New American Nazis” -- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/

“4 Little Girls” by Spike Lee
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118540/

“When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” by Spike Lee
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783612/

“Freedom Riders”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/freedomriders/

“Eyes on the Prize”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/eyesontheprize/

“Dark Girls”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966396/

 

Podcasts

United States of Anxiety
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/anxiety

Come Through with Rebecca Carroll
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/come-through

Pod Save the People
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-the-people/

There Goes the Neighborhood
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/neighborhood

Revisionist History, Malcolm Gladwell
http://revisionisthistory.com/
“Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment”
http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/13-miss-buchanans-period-of-adjustment

Cape Up, Jonathan Capehart
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/cape-up/

Code Switch
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

 

Other

Database on Police Violence
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

Police Use of Force Project
http://useofforceproject.org/#project

“A Riot is the Language of the Unheard” Speech by Martin Luther king, Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-lWsXKRbeI&app=desktop

 

Organizations working on Anti-Racism

Campaign Zero
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

Organization that utilizes research-based policy solutions to end police brutality in the U.S.
https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
https://www.naacp.org/

The NAACP Legal Defense
Supports racial justice through advocacy, litigation, and education
https://www.naacpldf.org/

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
provides legal services and support through a broad range of people with civil rights complaints
https://www.aclu.org/

Black Visions Collective
Black, trans, and queer-led organization committed to dismantling systems of oppression and violence
https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/

Black Lives Matter Inc
Organization in the US, UK, and Canada with the mission of eradicating white supremacy and building local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities 
https://blacklivesmatter.com/

Showing Up for Racial Justice
SURJ’s role as part of a multi-racial movement is to undermine white support for white supremacy and to help build a racially-just society.
https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/

Color of Change
Color of Change designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
https://colorofchange.org/

The Bail Project
The Bail Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ‒ one person at a time. We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration.
https://bailproject.org/

The Equal Justice Initiative
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
https://eji.org/

My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
President Obama launched My Brother’s Keeper in February 2014 to address persistent opportunity gaps facing boys and young men of color and to ensure all youth can reach their full potential.
https://www.obama.org/mbka/